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Explaining autism scientifically to 10 Yr old

TMom10

Hi

I'm hoping someone can help. Our 10 year old has started calling himself stupid in the last 6 months or so. He loves science and can understand quite complex things. It would be really helpful to have a way to explain autism to him from a scientific angle so thst he could see the reason he struggles with some seemingly straightforward things isn't down to stupidity. We've talked about brains being wired differently but I think he needs some more specific stuff. Hoping this makes sense and someone can point me in the right direction.  Thank you.

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  • From looking at the neuroanatomy and psychology books that I have it looks like those who have autism tend to have a slightly larger more symmetrical brain than those who do not, also autistic individuals appear to have more shorter interconnections and fewer longer interconnections between the different areas of the brain.

    Regarding the microstructure of the brain what I have found in research papers seems to be contradictory so it appears more research is required.

    The problems with a lot of the research that is carried out on brain structure in autism is that they tend to have a very small sample sizes and as everyone has a slightly different brain structure individual variation can skew any conclusions that are drawn.

  • in reply to Trev

    Thank you - this is interesting 

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